[plug] Deleting unused packages

[Richard Meyer]

Seem to remember someone asking about doing something similarin the last
month or so. I can't remember what distro they were using, though. Anyway
here's something you Debian fans may like.


http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue93/lg_tips.html

Cheers
RichardM

                  Spring Cleaning For Continuous Upgrades


If you have an easy-to-upgrade Linux system, you end up with a system
that's been upgraded many times instead of backed up and reinstalled.


To get rid of all the unused libraries from your Debian system, try the
deborphan utility: http://www.tribe.eu.org/deborphan


or, of course:


      apt-get install deborphan



It finds all the libraries that no longer have anything depending on them.


To purge unused libraries, simply do this:


      deborphan | sudo xargs apt-get -y --purge remove